A compendium of New England strangeness, paranormal or historical. Join host Tom Burby as he investigates some of the regions oddest happenings, most interesting personalities and unsolved mysteries.
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The Last Tree in the Meadow -a Ghost Story
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NOTE: The following story contains description of a suicide and may not be suitable for younger listeners. Ghosts are old companions. They’ve been with us since the very beginning. Go…Por Strange New England
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I was ten years old when my grandfather died. He died in his sleep during the cold February night with his rosary in his hands. My cousin had to break…Por Strange New England
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The Minister’s Black Veil & Patience Boston
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It’s a warm July Sunday in 1745. You’re sitting in your pew at the First Church of York, Maine, waiting for the service to begin. It is a quiet time,…Por Strange New England
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The Strange Voyage of the Charles Haskell
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A ghost story is usually a solitary thing. It lives by itself and doesn’t go out much and by its nature, is solitary and lonesome. A ghost story is the…Por Strange New England
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You’ve heard a lot of stories about the old days in the deep woods of northern Maine, when river drivers cut the trees and moved the logs into the rivers,…Por Strange New England
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There are trains in the forest that run on their own schedules, trains whose origins and destinations are as mysterious as forest itself. These are some of their tales.Por Strange New England
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When I was a boy, my father told me a story about a ghost town. I come from northern Maine, Aroostook County, a place of endless trees and potato fields…Por Strange New England
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Loring Air Force Base, which itself is now only a memory. The bunkers we walk among are easily viewed on Google Earth but at one time in the early 1950s, this was one of the most secure and secret sites on the planet. Inside this strange and haunting set of structures half buried in the earth, the United States stored enough nuclear warheads to des…
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Three score years and ten. It says it in the Bible, our allotted time upon this planet, the time we can expect to wander and walk and wonder, because nobody…Por Strange New England
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The Living Machine of John Murray Spear
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It looks like a small desk without any legs, just sitting there on a table, a well-fashioned rectangular wooden box containing within it a drawer that pulls out to reveal…Por Strange New England
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It happens several times a day to everyone I know, usually at dinner time. Sitting quietly, minding your own business in the comfort of your own home and the phone…Por Strange New England
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My name is George Miller Beard and I have a strange tale to tell you, a story so bizarre and truly unbelievable that I am certain people will doubt my…Por Strange New England
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The Phantom Hitchhiker of Haynesville Woods
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You find yourself alone on a journey, feeling somewhat lost as the houses seemed to have disappeared from the side of the road and all you have seen for the…Por Strange New England
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The Frozen Hill People of Northern Vermont
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Elbert Stevens owned a sawmill in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont at the turn of the last century. His people had been in the area for time out of mind and he…Por Strange New England
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The wind is blowing. It seems like the wind is always blowing here on this rock, like a constant companion, the sea breezes wafting lightly or heavy, but always, the…Por Strange New England
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Walled Alive: The Dark Origin of Poe’s Cask of Amontillado
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Lieutenant Gustavus Drane awoke from his stupor to find himself chained to the floor. It was dark, so dark. Where was he and what was that sound? How did I…Por Strange New England
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The Eternal Wanderer: The Legend of Peter Rugg
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There is a legend in the northeast of a man condemned to ride the storm for all eternity. When folks first started describing the man and his conveyance, he was…Por Strange New England
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It is dusk of a late summer day and you are standing quietly on a shoreline. There are bits of gnarled tree roots washed ashore here and there, pebbles, and…Por Strange New England
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When I was a young boy living in Caribou, Maine, back in the 1960s, we had two rocking chairs in our living room. I spent a lot of time in…Por Strange New England
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Andrew Tozier – Maine’s Civil War Medal of Honor Winner…and Thief?
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Not everyone can claim that they were born in Purgatory, but Andrew Tozier could, on February 11, 1838. Purgatory is a town near the Monmouth-Litchfield line in central Maine and…Por Strange New England
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“For the Moon Shone Bright” – The Purington Murders of 1806
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[Please note – some of the descriptions in this article/episode are graphic. Use discretion with younger readers/listeners] You are lying in your bed on this hot July night. It has…Por Strange New England
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It is night. Darkness has fallen over the September night as the half moon rises and the stars begin to fill the sky over Penobscot Bay. Sometimes the night falls…Por Strange New England
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I know you don’t tell other people that you’ve had that experience, that one singular time when you were alone in your house and it happened: something inexplicable. Maybe it…Por Strange New England
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He has waited for entrance into the mausoleum for well over a hundred years - learn the real story behind the enternal mourner of Cuttingsville, Vermont.Por Strange New England
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Ten thousand warplanes flew from or over Maine during World War II. Over the course of the war, a total of 48 aircraft crashed in the state accounting for 143…Por Strange New England
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If you live in New England, sooner or later you’ll have this experience: you’ll find yourself driving down a road you’ve driven a hundred times before and you’ll notice something…Por Strange New England
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The cold wind blows across the empty fields. The trees have shed their rusted leaves and the moon plays hide and go seek with the thin and wispy clouds. It’s…Por Strange New England
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Men in Black in Maine – The 1976 Herbert Hopkins Case
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It is September 11, 1976. You are sitting quietly in a living room near Maine’s Old Orchard Beach. The sea air is strangely balmy as you settle down for a…Por Strange New England
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It won’t be long now. The night winds begin to gather the chill that will eventually drill into our bones once the damp, grey skies of November gather overhead, anchoring…Por Strange New England
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Was She Buried Alive? The Strange Tale of Mary Howe
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How do we knew when a body is truly dead? Modern science shows us that the body dies slowly, not all at once as we used to suppose. It takes…Por Strange New England
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High Strangeness in Old New England – The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann
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The great 19th century American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, composed a strange poem entitled “The Garrison of Cape Ann” that tells one of the strangest tales ever to come from…Por Strange New England
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America’s First Ghost – The Machiasport Haunting
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The three men made their way down the lonely trail that skirted the fields outside of Machiasport, Maine. These hills were wide open and bare, but the trees in the distance…Por Strange New England
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The Great Saltwater Gold Hoax of Lubec, Maine
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Gold forms in the heart of dying stars and as a result of their explosions, or novas, it is spread throughout the cosmos as one of the heavier elements. All…Por Strange New England
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The Earliest-Born Human Ever Photographed – Waldoboro’s Conrad Heyer
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We are visual creatures linked to the world through images, taking in most of our knowledge through our vision. The poets speak of the eyes as being the windows of…Por Strange New England
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Boundary Pond is a small, unassuming body of water in the northeastern corner of Maine. It is almost touching Quebec, earning the pond it’s name sake. It has an outlet…Por Strange New England
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In ancient times when the night was so much darker than it is today, stories were told that endure to this day. It’s easy for scholars to assume that, because…Por Strange New England
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We Did Not Always Make Merry at Christmas
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It is that time of year again, and apart from the religious significance of the day, there is the secular aspect of days off, possible Christmas bonuses, money spent on…Por Strange New England
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There are moments in your life that shine like stars in the darkness and light your path and as you remember your past. Such memories are safely couched in the…Por Strange New England
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Lithobolia – The Stone-Throwing Demons of Great Island
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Today, New Castle is a small town of 2.4 square miles at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in New Hampshire bordering the neighboring state of Maine. Today, only 968…Por Strange New England
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No one knows his name. No one knows his motives. All that is known is where he lingers, what he looks like, how he haunts the living and the circumstances…Por Strange New England
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